Posterized

Stony Brook University fell just short of the 2014 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Hofstra hasn’t attended the Big Dance since 2001 (and hasn’t escaped the first round since 1977). But one Long Islander, at least, will figure prominently in this weekend’s Final Four – and will likely get as much screen time as any Florida forward.

Gregory Halperin – a 2011 Duke University grad currently attending Harvard Law School and son of partner Ira Halperin of Mineola law firm Meltzer Lippe Goldstein & Breitstone – recognized his face plastered this week on the side of AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Tex., which is hosting the NCAA tournament’s semifinal round.

His larger-than-life visage is part of a 2014 Final Four promo. It’s an action shot of several frenzied fans, but Gregory – in full Blue Devils face paint – is the most prominent.

According to his father, the picture was taken at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis shortly after Duke bested Butler to win the 2010 NCAA title. Gregory was a junior at the time and a “crazy Duke fan,” the attorney noted, and the candid shot catches him “in one of the highlight moments of his college life.”

The younger Halperin not only represents Long Island in this year’s Final Four, he also represents his alma mater: In one of the 2014 tournament’s biggest bracket-busters, his heavily favored Blue Devils fell in the first round to the mighty Bears of unheralded Mercer University.